Photographs and a full description of the missing seaman were circulated yesterday among police and other agencies interested in the search. Domei reported that the youth was officially listed as vanished at the Lending Party barracks early yester-Gay morning after a roll-call of all the men who had enjoyed overnight leave, At about the same hour, however, the drastic measures enforced during the night by the Japanese were materially relaxed and the Northern area began to recover from the jitters, One of the early reactions to the sudden display of fighting power all over the area was emergency activity on the part of the Peace Preservation Corps. This body of Chinese was quickly mobilized in the region and its members began to erect defences, including sand-bags, it was reported, in the vicinity of the southern boundary of Chapei, These operations, however, were soon suspended,
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